CPD Programs

Ten Individual One Hour CPD Webcast Seminars to view at your convenience. What a Package! 

It is likely you have heard the terms Blockchain, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts. But do you know what they are, how relevant they are to your legal practice, how they will and do impact your clients, or how to start learning the basics? There are many questions and issues surrounding these terms and new technologies and this seminar, presented by Joni Pirovich, Special Counsel from Mills Oakley, is here to answer all your questions.

Session 1: Redacting Documents – Errors, Risks and Consequences Session 2: Contract Law – Case Update and Recent Developments. Session 3: Negotiating And Drafting Settlement Agreements And Releases. Session 4: VCAT – Powers, Practice & Procedure. Session 5: Misleading and Deceptive Conduct Update – Hear from a Barrister And Former General Manager, Consumer Affairs!

The payment of fees starts with a cost estimate, cost agreement through to Disclosure Information and negotiating client concerns or complaints. There are red flags that should warn a practitioner at an early stage about client intentions and ability to pay. Isolation, remote client engagement and interaction during Covid-19 may make some potential client problems more difficult to detect. Missing these warnings signs or failing to communicate effectively can leave you exposed to a client dispute over fees and at worst, a formal complaint and disciplinary hearing.

Your client must abide by various and sometimes competing legislative regimes which govern:

Misbehaviour in any workplace can have devastating consequences. Sexual harassment, bullying, victimisation, discrimination in the workplace are all key risk areas.  But with so many changes in how we work in 2021, comes new challenges to traditional thinking about where the workplace begins and ends. Employee and colleague vulnerabilities are more exposed than ever, as colleagues ‘enter each other’s homes’ and private spaces to carry out work and conduct business. Is there a risk of information about how a colleague lives, being used against them? 

This one hour CPD seminar is designed to help you identify and guide you through the essential issues to focus on and how to manage your clients and risks.

This one hour CPD seminar is designed to help you identify and guide you through the essential issues to focus on and how to manage your clients and risks including: